South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-08-19
Fashion Notes.

Rough-and-ready straw hats and bon
nets are in high favor.
Metal gauzes are now being much used,
as well as metal braids.
Back laces of various kinds are again
used to trim oolored silk dresses.
Skirts composed of two founces are
likely to be revived for young ladies'
evening dresses.
Tiny specks of white on gray, blue,
heliotrope or brown grounds are feat
ure of the newly imported summer silks.
Rich uncut velvet ribbon is used in
loops or bows upon thin dresses, also
broad sashes of heavy brocade or moire.
Gray in every shade, light and dark,
IS the color most sought this season.
Very dark seal brown is also being re-
vived.
The blouse waist with sailor collar is
used for bathing suits by stout ladies.
Slight figures look better with a plated
waist with yoke.
Velvet continues in vogue for collars,
cuffs and plastrons, and for borders upon
skirts, but there are no velvet panels
upon the newest models.
Guimpes for children's low-cut dresses
are made of all-over embroidery with q
frill around the neck and the deep cuffs
of embroidery to match.
A .favorite corsagc for their sheer
dresses is the full-belted waist, the full
ness of the top being gathered on cords
in form of pointed yoke.
Three kinds of material are sometimes
utilized this season for woollen and silk
costumes for outdoor wear No trimming
is required for these dresses.
When lady wants black silk dress
that will prove serviceable, she is adj
vised to select as material either faille
Franchise or Bengaline silk.
Crushed strawberry is now worn with
green, and presents more forlorn effect
than ever. One of the kindred tints of
copper pink is pretty.
Dresses of white Irish linen are made
up with beltcd blouse waists and
trimmed with dark blue bands of
twilled cotton fabric called dungarec.
Draped overskirts are superscding
draped tunics. Double skirted dresses
are worn by fashionable ladies, and they
are very effective when tastcfully ar
ranged.
The roundbelted gathered waist of
French muslin dresses is made up with
out lining. 1t is cut as long as basque,
the edges being thrust out of sight I'M
der the skirt belt.
Pelerines are popular with young
ladies. They are made with hoods.
which are generally lined with silk
matching the costume with which the
garment is to be worn.
The divided skirt has long been
talked of as a possibility in the near flu
ture and it has become thing of beauty
Pit'tN, vi
haps and trimmed with lace.
The reform dress form fits the figure
perfectly, and is made with the gored
skirt and the waist all in one piece. The
dress may be in any style, and has no
suggestion that there exists any eccen-
tricity about it.
The more simple the couture is made,
the more stylish it is. The bang is not
80 stylish except for very young girls, as
the hair combed up over cushion and
then twisted into simple s-knot
The colorcd foulards make very sty-
lish costumes. Black fouard is used in
mourning IN preference to surah, as it
is capable Of being made more graceful
". Dull jet trims such costumes most
appropriately.
A novel arrangement Of tucks on new
gowns is to lay them lengthwise, about
quarter Of an inch wide, upon the sides
Of the skirt, from the top to within ten
inches of the foot, where they stop, the
material below forming . flounce which
is tucked across.